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EUROfusion - A New Programme for Efficient Fusion Research

With a ceremony on 9 October 2014 in Brussels a new organization has been started for the coordination of the European Fusion Research Programme. The Consortium EUROfusion is the backbone of this new organization, which comprises 29 national fusion centres from 26 countries. With this consortium the national fusion research centres want to bundle their resources more efficiently towards the common goal: the first fusion power plant. About half of the five years' budget (2014–2018) of 857 Million Euro is borne by the EU.
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30 Years of TEXTOR

TEXTOR was Jülich’s large-scale fusion experiment for 30 years. The results obtained made a significant impact on international fusion research. Guests from all over the world took part in the official function at Forschungszentrum Jülich today to mark the anniversary, and, at the same time, the shutdown of the experiment in December 2013. Together with Jülich scientists and their partners, they looked back on more than a quarter of a century of fusion research at Jülich.
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Nuclear Fusion: Jülich's Role in ITER

Forschungszentrum Jülich will lead a consortium of European partners to design a measuring system for the fusion experiment ITER. The facility is currently under construction in Cadarache in the south of France as part of a major international cooperation. The consortium signed a Framework Partnership Agreement with the European Union’s Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy (F4E) to develop the ITER core plasma Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (CXRS) diagnostic. This measuring system will help determine the composition and temperature of the plasma in the vacuum vessel. The Framework Partnership Agreement runs for four years with an F4E contribution of 4.9 million euros.
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